Raised in six countries across four continents, Pulkit Datta’s filmmaking interests are inherently cross-cultural. A NYU alum, he started his career assisting director Mira Nair and has since worked on a wide range of international projects. He has worked on the creative development and production of scripted films, feature documentaries, commercials, music videos, short films, and multimedia campaigns. His films have screened at festivals such as, Toronto, Tribeca, Atlanta, Cinequest, and New Filmmakers New York. Pulkit is active in the filmmaking community as an organizer and programmer for various film festivals, film screening events, and development workshops. Pulkit is an alum of development programs at IFP, Cine Qua Non Lab, NFDC Film Bazaar, and producing fellowships at Center for Asian American Media, and Impact Partners.

Michael Frazier is a poet and high school teacher in Kanazawa, Japan. He received his BA from Gallatin at New York University, where he was the 2017 poet commencement speaker and a co-champion of the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. He has performed at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Nuyorican Poets Café and the Gallatin Arts Festival, among other venues. A reader for the Adroit Journal and an alumnus of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Frazier has poems published or forthcoming in Construction, the Visible Poetry Project, Day One, the Speakeasy Project and elsewhere.